Hebrew noun (masculine) · H3999
מַבּוּל
mabbulmab-bool'
flood
13 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: mabbûwl
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H3999is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 2 of 39Old Testament books
- 10spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H3999
a deluge
The King James renders it: flood.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
mabbul is rendered "flood". It stands 13 times in the Hebrew text, across two books.
- Twelve of the uses stand in Genesis, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 6:17And behold, I will bring floodwaters upon the earth to destroy every creature under the heavens that has the breath of life. Everything on the earth will perish.
- The Greek text spells it ten different ways.
The first use
And behold, I will bring floodwaters upon the earth to destroy every creature under the heavens that has the breath of life. Everything on the earth will perish.
Genesis 6:17הַמַּבּ֥וּל
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- the flood9
- a flood1
- and the flood1
- into a flood1
- to the flood1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| מַבּוּעַ | mabbua | spring | Uses3 |
All 13, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
10 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- הַמַּבּֽוּל׃3
- הַמַּבּ֑וּל2
- הַמַּבּ֥וּל1
- הַמַּבּ֔וּל1
- הַמַּבּ֛וּל1
- הַמַּבּֽוּל׃ פ1
- וְהַמַּבּ֣וּל1
- לְמַבּ֔וּל1
- לַמַּבּ֣וּל1
- מַבּ֖וּל1
The grammar of each form
- the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singular9HTd/Ncmsa
- conjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singular1HC/Td/Ncmsa
- noun · masculine singular1HNcmsa
- preposition + noun · masculine singular1HR/Ncmsa
- preposition with the article + noun · masculine singular1HRd/Ncmsa
Genesis
twelve uses
And behold, I will bring floodwaters upon the earth to destroy every creature under the heavens that has the breath of life. Everything on the earth will perish.
- הַמַּבּ֥וּלhamabulthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the flood
Now Noah was 600 years old when the floodwaters came upon the earth.
- וְהַמַּבּ֣וּלvehammabulconjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: and the flood
And Noah and his wife, with his sons and their wives, entered the ark to escape the waters of the flood.
- הַמַּבּֽוּל׃hamabulthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the flood
And after seven days the floodwaters came upon the earth.
- הַמַּבּ֔וּלhamabulthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the flood
For forty days the flood kept coming on the earth, and the waters rose and lifted the ark high above the earth.
- הַמַּבּ֛וּלhamabulthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the flood
And I establish My covenant with you: Never again will all life be cut off by the waters of a flood; never again will there be a flood to destroy the earth.”
- הַמַּבּ֑וּלhamabulthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the flood
- מַבּ֖וּלmabulnoun · masculine singulartagged: a flood
I will remember My covenant between Me and you and every living creature of every kind. Never again will the waters become a flood to destroy all life.
- לְמַבּ֔וּלlemabulpreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: into a flood
After the flood, Noah lived 350 years.
- הַמַּבּ֑וּלhamabulthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the flood
This is the account of Noah’s sons Shem, Ham, and Japheth, who also had sons after the flood.
- הַמַּבּֽוּל׃hamabulthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the flood
All these are the clans of Noah’s sons, according to their generations and nations. From these the nations of the earth spread out after the flood.
- הַמַּבּֽוּל׃ פhamabulthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the flood
This is the account of Shem. Two years after the flood, when Shem was 100 years old, he became the father of Arphaxad.
- הַמַּבּֽוּל׃hamabulthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the flood
Psalms
one use
The LORD sits enthroned over the flood; the LORD is enthroned as King forever.
- לַמַּבּ֣וּלlamabulpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: to the flood
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.